I'm going to ask the question for Ito semimartingales rather than semimartingales in general, but more general answers would be great.
An Ito semimartingale is a martingale for which the characteristics $(B, C, \nu)$ is absolutely continuous w.r.t. the Lebesgue measure, say
- The "drift" term is (pathwise integral with stochastic integrand)
$$ B_t = \int_0^t b_s d_s. $$
- The integrated volatility is (pathwise integral with stochastic integrand)
$$ C_t = \int_0^t c_s d_s. $$
- The law of jumps are given by, for a measure-valued process $t \mapsto F_t$,
$$ \nu(dt, dx) = dt F_t(dx). $$
Assuming one is allowed to make the most generous assumption about the observation scheme: we sample a given realization of the process between $[0,T_n]$ at equidistant partition points with mesh $\Delta_n$, with $T_n \rightarrow \infty$ and $\Delta_n \rightarrow 0$ (you're free to make any additional joint assumptions on $\{ T_n \}$ and $\{ \Delta_n \}$):
Question Is there a class of (Ito) semimartingales for which all three characteristics admit consistent estimation?
All answers and references welcome. I am hoping for something that would take us out of the classical parametric setting---for example, $$ \sigma W_t + \mbox{compount Poisson process} $$
where $\sigma = \sqrt{c_t}$ is constant and $W_t$ is standard Brownian motion.